Opulence.
02 · IT Consulting

Technology decisions made before the invoice, not after.

Most IT problems are decisions that were never made: which cloud, which vendor, which system is the source of truth. We make those decisions with you, write them down and carry them through to working infrastructure. Whether a group needs interim technology leadership for a division, a migration across several estates or a partner to run operations to a service level, the goal is the same: technology that costs what it should and does what the business needs.

Sound familiar?

The problems that bring people to us.

  • 01

    No roadmap, only tickets.

    IT is reactive. Budget goes on whatever broke last, and nobody can tell the board what the estate should look like in three years.

  • 02

    Systems that don't speak.

    ERP, CRM, the commerce platform and a dozen acquired systems each hold a different version of the customer. People copy data by hand and errors follow.

  • 03

    Vendor advice you can't trust.

    Every supplier recommends more of what they sell. You need someone with no product to push and the standing to say so to a global vendor.

How it consulting runs

Our method, tuned for this work.

The same spine runs through every engagement, whatever the discipline. It keeps decisions visible and lets you see where you are at any point.

  1. 01

    Assess

    Inventory of systems, contracts, risks and costs, with interviews across the business.

  2. 02

    Roadmap

    A sequenced plan with budget, owners and the decisions each stage depends on.

  3. 03

    Implement

    Projects delivered by our engineers or coordinated across your vendors.

  4. 04

    Operate

    Monitoring, support and change control so what was built stays healthy.

  5. 05

    Review

    Quarterly reviews adjust the roadmap as the business changes.

Why Opulence

Vendor-neutral.

We don't resell licences or hardware. Recommendations are judged on fit and cost, and we show the working.

Engineers, not only advisers.

The people who write the roadmap can also build the pipeline or run the migration, so nothing is lost in hand-over.

Security by default.

Every recommendation is checked against our cybersecurity practice before it reaches you.

Traps to avoid
  • Migrating to the cloud without a cost model.
  • Choosing a platform because the sales demo was good.
  • Integrating systems point to point until nobody can change anything.
  • Buying tools before fixing the process they are meant to support.
  • Leaving continuity planning until after the first outage.
Tools and platforms
  • Microsoft 365
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Datadog
  • Grafana
  • Okta
  • Entra ID
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
Platforms we work with in it consulting12 platforms
Slack
Google Cloud
Microsoft
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Azure
AWS
Salesforce
SAP
Atlassian
GitHub
Cloudflare
Twilio
Ways to work together

Three shapes of mandate. One standard.

01

Fixed-scope programme

A defined outcome, a defined team and a date. Best for audits, platform builds and migrations.

02

Retained partnership

A standing senior team with a rolling backlog. Best for marketing, security operations and product estates.

03

Embedded leadership

Our specialists inside your organisation, on your tools and governance, for as long as the mandate runs.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Both, depending on what you need. Some clients want a roadmap and their own team executes it. Others want us to run the estate. Multiple clients start with one and move to the other.

Assessments and migrations are fixed scope. vCIO and managed services are monthly retainers. Specialist work in between runs as short scoped engagements. Every proposal states which shape applies.

Yes. We coordinate vendors, hold them to their contracts and replace them only where the case is clear.

Large, established organisations: groups, divisions and subsidiaries where the estate is complex and the decisions carry weight. We work with internal IT leadership rather than in place of it.

Yes. We often start with a contained problem and expand once trust is established.

You do. Every credential, diagram and runbook sits in your systems, and we document as we go.

Next step

Technology decisions made before the invoice, not after.